Quotes - Joel (joelbcarter) (Niceville, FL) Showing 1-30 of 34

#1

“Their relationship, which had been going on five years, was built on admiration and mutual disbelief. After”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

2 likes

#2

“but sometimes all the right things are as useless as nothing at all. Life,”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

4 likes

#3

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude

2349 likes

#4

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: eternity, humor, time, wisdom

1215 likes

#5

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: cost, life, price, time, value

905 likes

#6

“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: desire, inspirational, make-a-difference, motivation

577 likes

#7

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: afford, let-alone, natural, rich, wealth

692 likes

#8

“for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

367 likes

#9

“We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.”
― A.W. Tozer

102 likes

#10

“Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

tags: god, ministry, work

120 likes

#11

“That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.
Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

19 likes

#12

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

475 likes

#13

“Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion ?”
― Oliver Heaviside

9 likes

#14

“Learn everything. Later you will see that nothing is superfluous.”
― Hugh of Saint-Victor

33 likes

#15

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: self-awareness, self-discovery

3051 likes

#16

“One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: truth

73 likes

#17

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

2311 likes

#18

“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible.”
― Pindar

162 likes

#20

“Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.”
― Mencius

tags: great-men, limitations, morality

45 likes

#21

“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart”
― Mencius

60 likes

#22

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: east-of-eden

654 likes

#23

“A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: church, east-of-eden

1 likes

#24

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: east-of-eden, humanity, love

3 likes

#25

“There's more beauty in the truth even if it is a dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: beauty, east-of-eden, steinbeck, truth

2 likes

#26

“Wishing just brought earned disappointment.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: east-of-eden, john-steinbeck

11 likes

#27

“It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

tags: marriage

100 likes

#28